El acecho animal a la poesía argentina contemporánea

Abstract

In the poetry books Abejas (2009) by Alejandro Crotto, Zoo (2009) by Anahí Mallol, and El arte de silbar (2014) by Sonia Scarabelli, animals, death, and words become key articulators of Argentinian poetry published within the last ten years. In these works, the poetic voice is confronted with the liminal experience of death and chooses to expresses itself through these animals’ bodies. When facing death, these animals facilitate poetic enunciation. Hence, these poetry books put forward “a language that is so new” (Scarabelli 2014: 22) precisely because it belongs to animals.

Keywords

• animals
• contemporary Argentinian poetry
• death
• animal language
• and poetic voice